said that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a poor dick named Si Lusheng who failed the college entrance examination. When he was staying in a youth hostel, he met Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism. On his pillow, Lu Sheng had a sweet dream. As soon as Lu Sheng fell asleep, he started a gorgeous counterattack, from high school champion, marrying Bai Fumei, to promotion and fortune, until four generations lived together and died at a high age. After he died, Lu Sheng woke up slowly, only to find that he was in the hotel, the rice provided by the youth hostel was in front of him, but God Lu was gone.
Although this story is familiar, few people have understood its connotation for more than a thousand years. So what kind of reasoning is it explaining? After watching this "Life Remote Control", you will understand.
This movie is in the same style as most of Adam Sandler's movies, which is a small family warm road. The family in the film is a typical American family: a male master in his early 30s, a young woman in his 20s, and 2-3 children of different sizes. Mike, the male owner of the house, is a typical angry diaosi: not only works hard, but also wears sloppy clothes (because he really doesn't have time to pay attention to his clothes), ice cream is in hand all day long, and he spends less time with his wife and children, which can be said in a day. Twenty sentences is fine. Although he is accompanied by a beautiful and gentle wife, this diaosi man is not satisfied, and he is bent on counterattack for the future happiness of his family. Luckily, after an unbearable outburst, Mike was given a magic remote that he could use to access any segment of his life.
Then, just like Lu Sheng who put his head on the porcelain pillow, he counterattacked. Exploding the neighbor who had bullied him before, being invited by his boss to partner, and becoming the number one designer in New York with his own company - he achieved something that most diaosi could never dream of.
However, the remote control is not a china pillow, and the movie is not "Dream of Yellow Plumeria." In the process of gaining all this achievement, what has Mike lost? His relationship with his wife went from sticking together to having a different bed, and eventually parted ways; he was not around when his father died; and his children were all excellent, but he never had a heart-to-heart conversation with them.
Compared with the esoteric Chinese idioms, American movies are better at making the characters in the story "completely enlightened", and this movie is no different. So when Mike was dying in the heavy rain before his death, he told the children around him what he felt in his heart: family is always above everything else.
Yes, it is such a simple truth, but it makes a person pay the price of his life.
Fortunately, American movies have always liked happy endings. After publishing his end-of-life sentiments, Mike woke up on the big mattress in the supermarket and found that he had become the American version of Lu Sheng. He returned home with his life insights, gave his parents a big hug, gave his wife a big kiss, prepared travel plans for the children, and then threw the magical remote control into the trash (I don't know if Lu Sheng saw What will he think about this movie, maybe he will think he is a big fool?)...
Like Lu Dongbin in Huang Liang's Dream, this movie also has an enlightened character who is proficient in the philosophy of life, that is magic Modi, the salesman of the remote control. Modi doesn't appear very often on the show, but he always has the right bubble when Mike's life is about to go awry. Why did he just give the remote to Mike? We don't know this, we can only explain it by fate. However, the phrase "good people also need to rest" often hangs on his lips, which is plain on the surface but full of philosophy. In our daily life, our definition of a "good person" is often limited to the definition of the person's moral character and economic strength, while ignoring the most important factor in maintaining a family, which is to put the care of family members above everything else. Although modern society is generally a society that seeks quick success and instant benefits, in order to pursue the so-called "career success" and ignore the family, in fact, in the end, not only will the marriage fall apart, but it will also directly have a permanent negative impact on the next generation. But this film tells us that the so-called good people are not businessmen who sacrifice their families for their careers (from the last time Mike met his father, it can be seen that years of hard work in the business have transformed him into a ruthless bastard), but a husband who can spend some time loving his wife and a father who can spend some time with his children.
People in the world can be roughly divided into two categories according to their attitudes towards life: life teleology people and life process people. This classification will not change due to changes in ethnicity, culture, and times, because it depends on whether you prioritize material needs or spiritual and psychological needs. From what I have observed, more and more people in today's world are beginning to change from the teleology of life to the theory of life process. The American values exported by Hollywood movies are one reason, but more importantly, human beings are not believing in God or not believing in God. After the evil era of Dou Tian Dou Di, he began to take the initiative to abandon the limitations of ideology and seriously think about his spiritual deficiency. In my opinion, this is not a bad phenomenon, on the contrary, it is precisely the result of the return of human nature and the human-oriented society. The exploitation of human nature for economic gain is unreasonable, whether in a capitalist country or a socialist country.
Ferris Bueller said in "The Genius of Skipping Class": Life is so fast, if you don't stop to appreciate the scenery around you, you will miss a lot. Sincerely so. Otherwise, when you sit in the park in your twilight years and look at those lively and playful children with admiration, what else do you have except the designer suit?
Loving your family, loving your neighbors, loving your present life, knowing how to be grateful and not complaining is the secret to grasping life.
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